Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy - Oct 2023

Public Duty Equality Commitment and Objectives

Our Commitment:

Mowbray Education Trust is committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive environment where we can be valued for our personal qualities and contributions.

We are committed to:

• Promoting positive relationships across the Trust being inclusive to those who share a protected characteristic and those that do not.

• Valuing and celebrating our differences and promoting equality and inclusion.

• Ensuring that our curriculum, schemes of work and policies are accessible to all students and that they are educated on the importance of supporting equality, diversity and inclusion.

• Removing obstacles and barriers that those who share a protected characteristic may be affected by. In doing so, the Trust will examine both the impact on individuals and on groups.

• Challenging stereotypical views and personal prejudices.

• Thinking about the language that we use, including informal communications and online messages.

• Encouraging participation in activities by taking positive action to help overcome disadvantages for those who share a protected characteristic.

• Creating an understanding that all employees as well as their employer can be held liable for acts of bullying, harassment, victimisation and unlawful discrimination, in the course of their employment, against colleagues, visitors, students and any external clients.

• Taking seriously all complaints of bullying, harassment, victimisation and unlawful discrimination by employees, colleagues, visitors, students and any external clients.

Our Whole Trust Objectives Are To:

• Publish and share our policy with all stakeholders to show compliance with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

• Analyse appropriate data to ensure compliance with legislation.

• Train our students, employees, governors and trustees in equality diversity and inclusion and make opportunities for training, development and progress available to all staff, who will be helped and encouraged to develop their full potential, so their talents and resources can be fully utilised to maximise the efficiency of the organisation.

• Raise achievement levels for our students who are eligible for pupil premium funding.

• Raise achievement levels for our students with special educational needs.

• Reduce the levels of homophobic, sexist and racist language used by students.

• Publish information about how we are progressing towards our objectives.

Gender Pay Gap Report - March 2022

Gender Pay Gap Report - March 2023

Information on Gender Pay Gaps can also be found here: https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/.

We recognise our obligation to act transparently and to use public funds with probity and responsibility. The Trust has implemented Financial Assurance Standards, delivering a road map for continued financial improvement, and a recent Internal Audit report notes that “Governance is very good indeed”.

We comply with the DfE Academy Trust Handbook, the latest iteration of which can be downloaded here.

Each Multi-Academy Trust has one Master Funding Agreement (MFA) with the Secretary of State for Education and then a Supplementary Funding Agreement (SFA) for each academy it operates.

Funding Agreements are agreed with the Government at the point of conversion, and it is, therefore, possible that individual SFAs will differ between academies.

Each of our Funding Agreements is available below:

Master Funding Agreement - Mowbray Education Trust Limited (Final)

Schedule I - Ab Kettleby SFA New (Final)

Schedule J - Brownlow SFA New (Final)

Schedule K - The Grove SFA New (Final)

Schedule L - JFC SFA New (Final)

Schedule M - Sherard SFA New (Final)

Schedule N - Somerby SFA New (Final)

Iveshead School Leicestershire SFA